Boris Smus·Dec 23, 2025Local e-ink handwriting recognition with on-device VLMsFor decades, I’ve carried a Field Notes notebook and a pen. I mainly used them to capture ideas on the go, but it would also be great to…A response icon1A response icon1
Boris Smus·Sep 29, 2025The pursuit of frictionless captureThe most fruitful moments for contemplation are often the least conducive to capture. I’ve been working on reducing friction in capturing…
Boris Smus·Oct 29, 2024Unintended Consequences of False EquityWhat if our pursuit of educational equity is perpetuating inequality? Just as a rising tide lifts all boats, true educational equity must…
Boris Smus·May 30, 2024Invention Cards enhanced by AII used GPT4’s multimodal features to accelerate and improve my recently rebooted Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery project now…
Boris Smus·May 16, 2024Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery 2.0Rebooted Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery a Civilization-inspired tech tree but for the real life history of science.
Boris Smus·Oct 18, 2023Tools for Thinking in SystemsWith this post I aim to synthesize some ideas from the Tools for Thought movement (e.g. Roam) with Systems Thinking (e.g. feedback loops)…
Boris Smus·Oct 18, 2023Semantic Similarity for Note TakingDays after capturing a “new” insight, it can be humbling to realize that you are repeating yourself. This might not be a bad thing, as you…
Boris Smus·Jan 14, 2022AI note garden: link suggestionsMy latest AI gardener apprentice finds pairs of notes that aren’t explicitly linked, but maybe ought to be. This project was inspired by…
Boris Smus·Dec 17, 2021AI note garden: summarizerOne benefit of keeping a long term note garden is that you can have conversations with your past self. You wake up a slightly different…
Boris Smus·Sep 18, 2021File Systems for ThoughtTools for Thought are all the rage these days. Unfortunately, most of these tools assume one corpus per tool, and the interoperability…A response icon2A response icon2
